MSNBC-and modern news’- continuing problem.

Today I was checking on earthen affairs and found this segment from MSNBC’s the Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell: http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/call-trump-s-trade-deal-anything-but-nafta-1307785283796?v=railb . This segment is titled “What’s in Pres. Trump’s preliminary agreement with Mexico?” Here’s the problem with this. Watching it was boring, and sleep-inducing. O’Donnell does a poor job of making the important interesting, with his consulting expert and himself actually belittling the trade deal changes. In addition, this segment has an important topic in foreign relations and the automotive industry, but O’Donnell fails to truly show or tell how this will have an impact on people’s lives. We don’t get solid answers to the questions like: how could this affect the economy of the U.S.? This segment also exhibits the common journalistic flaw of the modern age- politics over practicality. Probably at least a quarter of this time is devoted to talking about the president’s views and wants here, and O’Donnell comes back to it at least twice after the segment is into the meat of the story. The president’s views are important, but in this case the focus should be on relations with Mexico and Canada, and effects on the economies involved in this deal. You get barely any substantial information about what is actually in this deal or how it will affect us, even though it is the titular question here. It’s a confusing, rushed, and largely unhelpful piece. That is unacceptable. With a little more time and effort put in to the preliminary research for this topic, it could have been an engaging, useful piece about potential economic change and international relations, yet it feels like you’re little the wiser for watching it about either topic. Change needs to be made.